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Ho chiamato solo per dirti che TI AMO2023
“For the exhibition “Ho chiamato solo per dirti che ti amo”, Riccardo Banfi acted like a diviner in the rooms of the historic residence of Palazzo Brancadoro in Fermo. (…) The photographs on display, taken between 2016 and 2022 in different and distant cities, belong to the ongoing publication of the same name. In their “style,” tone, and appearance, these images could be understood as individual essences, singular bodies that simultaneously act within a possibility of open relationships to the context they inhabit, be it a physical space or the pages of a book. The chain of cross-references and proximities in which the shots are inserted then marks a mutual “affective relationship,” to use Riccardo’s words. This aspect takes on an even more intense charge when traversing the rooms of the Palazzo, now inhabited and acted upon by bodies that touch, look, and feel. And if, as in the volume-in-progress, some images on display “make explicit the anatomy of an explosion as the beginning of new stories,” Riccardo continues, others here serve to slow down and suspend the narrative, acting as visual hooks, pauses, and breaths”.
Excerpt from Giovanna Manzotti’s text for the exhibition “Ho chiamato solo per dirti che ti amo“, curated by Matilde Galletti with Karussell, Palazzo Brancadoro, Fermo
“Ho chiamato solo per dirti che ti amo” exhibition catalogue available
here